Café & Catering Manager

Do you have a passion for great food and coffee, a head for business and a big heart for people?

If this is you, use your demonstrated café and catering experience to grow your hospitality career in a rewarding role where you will create a more inclusive world for people living with disability. The Plant Room offers meaningful supported employment opportunities in an environment that focuses on inclusion, independence, dignity, and respect. This role oversees operations across our cafes located in Coniston, Horsley (Illawarra) and Hammondville (South-West Sydney) and our growing catering business.

The Café & Catering Manager plays an instrumental role in overseeing the smooth day-to-day operations of our cafés and catering business.  This role joins our team full-time, working Tuesday to Saturday. As our sites operate across three locations, the successful candidate must be flexible to travel between work site locations as required to support operational and business needs.

In addition, you enjoy a busy and varied workday, juggling café and catering management responsibilities that include:

• Providing leadership, mentoring and direction to on-site café coordinators
• Setting the standard for an exceptional customer experience 
• Stock management and product quality
• Preparation, presentation and seasonal updating of menu items
• Ensure consistency in excellence of coffee service and quality
• Ensuring a high standard of venue presentation, cleanliness, and adherence to food safety regulations.
• Working with café coordinators to complete rostering
• Reporting and correcting safety and maintenance issues.
• Work with GM of Employment & Enterprises to develop and implement future growth strategies

Beyond this, you provide quality supervision, training, and guidance to a team of Café staff, ensuring allocated tasks align with individual abilities, needs, and employment goals.

The annual salary for this role is up to $93,000, inclusive of phone allowance (plus 12% superannuation) dependent upon relevant experience and qualification.

About You

Our Café & Catering Manager brings with them ambition, passion, and creativity, along with: 

• Minimum 5 years café management experience
• Nationally Recognised Food Safety Supervisor (FSS) certification
• Awareness of disability 
• Proven success working within budgets and to sales targets.
• Ability to communicate effectively with participants, their families, community agencies and other professionals.
• Commitment to delivering high level customer service.
• Willingness and ability to travel between the organisation's three locations as required to support operational and business needs.
• Cleared Working with Children Check, NDIS Worker Screening Check, First Aid Certificate, or willingness to obtain and a current valid Driver Licence

Why Join Us!

We value the incredible work that our people do by providing a range of benefits including:

• Attractive not-for-profit salary packaging options (around $15,900 in tax free earning potential).
• Extra rest and recreation with 5 weeks annual leave per annum. (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Birthday cake is sure to taste extra sweet with an additional paid day off for birthday leave.
• Access to our exclusive Fitness Passport program - discounted unlimited access to multiple gyms and pools.
• Opportunity to never stop learning with our abundance of professional development opportunities.
• Reward and recognition programs to celebrate success.
• Flexible public holiday leave options to celebrate recognised days of religious or cultural significance.
• Access to a free reputable and confidential Employee Assistance Program for you and members of your immediate family.

Apply Now!

If you are a café management super-star looking for a rewarding opportunity, we want to hear from you! Please submit a Resume and Cover Letter that outlines how your experience and skills match the above criteria. If you would like further information regarding the role or have any questions, please reach out to Steve Betinsky via email: ••••@disabilitytrust.org.au.

Applications close 9am, Friday 28 August 2026. Shortlisted candidates may be contacted as applications are received.